Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 79 53
Rank change year-on-year -37 -26 -8
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,280 1,664 3,542
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.77% 3.67% 4.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 3.91% 4.88%
Number of salaries quoted 863 1,047 2,812
10th Percentile £52,400 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £74,870 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% +10.92% -13.62%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £86,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £113,842 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £68,783 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.86% +5.82% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 56,516 42,516 72,551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.36% 93.70% 87.81%
Number of salaries quoted 34,044 22,349 55,477
10th Percentile £29,270 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,262 £80,000 £74,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 8 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 8 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -31 1,169 £77,500 +3.33% 539
London +9 646 £86,750 -0.86% 245
Work from Home -27 565 £74,500 +3.49% 405
UK excluding London -95 531 £67,500 -1.86% 384
North of England -34 243 £70,000 - 119
North West -32 118 £68,750 - 60
South East -110 101 £75,000 +11.11% 115
Yorkshire -29 100 £70,000 -2.77% 35
South West -60 62 £67,500 -1.50% 45
Midlands -59 55 £67,500 +3.85% 47
East of England -5 36 £62,500 +8.70% 29
West Midlands -22 32 £67,500 -3.57% 28
Scotland -83 26 £62,500 -16.67% 22
North East -7 25 £61,350 +16.86% 25
East Midlands -52 22 £67,500 +3.85% 19
Wales -10 7 £55,200 +17.02% 13
Northern Ireland -34 5 £62,500 +8.70%
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 27 (2.11%) Apache Spark
2 22 (1.72%) Apache
2 22 (1.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 21 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (1.48%) Confluence
5 13 (1.02%) JBoss
5 13 (1.02%) OpenStack
6 11 (0.86%) WebSphere
7 8 (0.63%) CMS
7 8 (0.63%) IIS
8 7 (0.55%) Appian
9 5 (0.39%) Apache Pulsar
9 5 (0.39%) nginx
10 3 (0.23%) Camunda
10 3 (0.23%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.23%) Liferay
10 3 (0.23%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.078%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.078%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 15 (1.17%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.86%) Maya
2 11 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.31%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.16%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 13 (1.02%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (0.70%) Endur
3 6 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.23%) SAP FS
5 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.078%) Actimize
6 1 (0.078%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.078%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.078%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.078%) Quorum
6 1 (0.078%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.078%) Shopify
6 1 (0.078%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 705 (55.08%) AWS
2 576 (45.00%) Azure
3 271 (21.17%) GCP
4 229 (17.89%) Serverless
5 169 (13.20%) SaaS
6 117 (9.14%) GitHub
7 104 (8.13%) Amazon S3
8 99 (7.73%) AWS Lambda
9 98 (7.66%) Azure DevOps
10 95 (7.42%) Amazon EKS
11 65 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
12 64 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
13 62 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
14 50 (3.91%) GitHub Actions
15 45 (3.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 45 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
15 45 (3.52%) PaaS
16 44 (3.44%) OpenShift
17 35 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
18 33 (2.58%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.34%) Broadband
2 12 (0.94%) HTTP
3 9 (0.70%) AMQP
4 6 (0.47%) Internet
4 6 (0.47%) Network Security
5 5 (0.39%) MQTT
6 4 (0.31%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (0.31%) DHCP
6 4 (0.31%) DNS
6 4 (0.31%) Firewall
6 4 (0.31%) HTTPS
6 4 (0.31%) SNMP
6 4 (0.31%) WAN
7 3 (0.23%) Multicast
8 2 (0.16%) LTE
8 2 (0.16%) Modbus
8 2 (0.16%) SSL
8 2 (0.16%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.078%) TCAP
9 1 (0.078%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (14.06%) NoSQL
2 168 (13.13%) PostgreSQL
3 131 (10.23%) MongoDB
4 119 (9.30%) SQL Server
5 68 (5.31%) MySQL
6 63 (4.92%) DynamoDB
6 63 (4.92%) Relational Database
7 49 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
8 39 (3.05%) Redis
9 29 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 28 (2.19%) Big Data
11 26 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
11 26 (2.03%) BigQuery
12 24 (1.88%) RDBMS
13 19 (1.48%) Power BI
14 14 (1.09%) Tableau
15 13 (1.02%) DB2
15 13 (1.02%) Pinecone
16 12 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
17 10 (0.78%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 172 (13.44%) Git
2 118 (9.22%) Jenkins
3 76 (5.94%) GitLab
4 50 (3.91%) TeamCity
5 48 (3.75%) JIRA
6 37 (2.89%) Cucumber
6 37 (2.89%) JUnit
7 32 (2.50%) Selenium
8 28 (2.19%) Cypress.io
9 24 (1.88%) CircleCI
10 21 (1.64%) Mockito
11 20 (1.56%) Bitbucket
12 19 (1.48%) Maven
13 13 (1.02%) JMeter
13 13 (1.02%) Oracle Forms
14 11 (0.86%) Vite
15 10 (0.78%) Postman
16 8 (0.63%) git-flow
17 7 (0.55%) REST Assured
18 6 (0.47%) Claude Code
General
1 380 (29.69%) Finance
2 373 (29.14%) Social Skills
3 157 (12.27%) Banking
4 102 (7.97%) Law
5 95 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
6 87 (6.80%) Public Sector
7 68 (5.31%) Retail
8 62 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 56 (4.38%) Financial Institution
10 50 (3.91%) Telecoms
11 42 (3.28%) Back Office
12 25 (1.95%) Games
13 24 (1.88%) Billing
13 24 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
15 18 (1.41%) Advertising
16 17 (1.33%) Legal
17 13 (1.02%) Front Office
17 13 (1.02%) Marketing
18 11 (0.86%) French Language
Job Titles
1 431 (33.67%) Developer
2 332 (25.94%) Senior
3 252 (19.69%) Software Engineer
4 217 (16.95%) Architect
5 159 (12.42%) Lead
6 118 (9.22%) Senior Developer
7 111 (8.67%) Full-Stack Developer
8 110 (8.59%) Java Developer
9 107 (8.36%) Solutions Architect
10 86 (6.72%) Senior Software Engineer
11 84 (6.56%) Java Engineer
12 81 (6.33%) .NET Developer
13 51 (3.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 50 (3.91%) Java Software Engineer
15 48 (3.75%) Lead Developer
16 47 (3.67%) Software Developer
17 41 (3.20%) Principal Engineer
18 40 (3.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 40 (3.13%) Senior Java Developer
19 39 (3.05%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 296 (23.13%) React
2 295 (23.05%) .NET
3 255 (19.92%) RESTful
4 227 (17.73%) Spring
5 205 (16.02%) REST
6 200 (15.63%) Spring Boot
7 184 (14.38%) Kafka
8 182 (14.22%) Node.js
9 116 (9.06%) AngularJS
10 101 (7.89%) .NET Core
11 77 (6.02%) HTML
12 71 (5.55%) gRPC
13 68 (5.31%) .NET Framework
14 62 (4.84%) CSS
15 59 (4.61%) ASP.NET
15 59 (4.61%) RabbitMQ
16 56 (4.38%) Middleware
17 50 (3.91%) Django
18 47 (3.67%) ASP.NET Web API
18 47 (3.67%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 366 (28.59%) Cloud Native
2 210 (16.41%) Distributed Systems
3 113 (8.83%) Enterprise Software
4 104 (8.13%) Product Ownership
5 56 (4.38%) Greenfield Project
6 49 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
7 37 (2.89%) Data Structures
8 32 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
9 31 (2.42%) Algorithms
10 27 (2.11%) Over-the-Top Content
10 27 (2.11%) Video\Live Streaming
10 27 (2.11%) Virtual Team
11 25 (1.95%) AI Agents
11 25 (1.95%) Distributed Architecture
12 23 (1.80%) Blockchain
13 18 (1.41%) Mobile App
14 16 (1.25%) IoT
14 16 (1.25%) Management Information System
14 16 (1.25%) Public Cloud
15 13 (1.02%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.22%) Linux
2 21 (1.64%) Windows
3 19 (1.48%) Android
4 10 (0.78%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.39%) CentOS
5 5 (0.39%) Debian
5 5 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.31%) Unix
7 2 (0.16%) VMS
8 1 (0.078%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 619 (48.36%) CI/CD
2 555 (43.36%) Agile
3 509 (39.77%) DevOps
4 478 (37.34%) Software Engineering
5 351 (27.42%) Containerisation
6 302 (23.59%) Full-Stack Development
7 275 (21.48%) Problem-Solving
8 270 (21.09%) Mentoring
9 251 (19.61%) Event-Driven
10 236 (18.44%) AI
11 229 (17.89%) Test Automation
12 228 (17.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 202 (15.78%) Computer Science
14 167 (13.05%) Infrastructure as Code
15 160 (12.50%) Scrum
16 157 (12.27%) Technical Leadership
17 148 (11.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 148 (11.56%) TDD
18 144 (11.25%) Architectural Patterns
19 142 (11.09%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 446 (34.84%) Java
2 325 (25.39%) Python
3 275 (21.48%) SQL
4 261 (20.39%) JavaScript
5 256 (20.00%) C#
6 221 (17.27%) TypeScript
7 99 (7.73%) Go
8 37 (2.89%) PHP
9 33 (2.58%) Scala
10 30 (2.34%) Bash
11 28 (2.19%) C++
12 25 (1.95%) C
13 24 (1.88%) PL/SQL
14 23 (1.80%) Ruby
15 22 (1.72%) Shell Script
16 21 (1.64%) Kotlin
17 15 (1.17%) Rust
18 13 (1.02%) PowerShell
19 7 (0.55%) Bicep
20 6 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 208 (16.25%) Degree
2 141 (11.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 112 (8.75%) Security Cleared
4 78 (6.09%) SC Cleared
5 65 (5.08%) AWS Certification
6 49 (3.83%) Master's Degree
7 43 (3.36%) Azure Certification
8 41 (3.20%) TOGAF Certification
9 37 (2.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 31 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (1.33%) DV Cleared
12 14 (1.09%) CISSP
13 11 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
14 10 (0.78%) CISM
14 10 (0.78%) PMI Certification
14 10 (0.78%) PMP
15 8 (0.63%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.47%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 5 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (6.09%) QA
2 28 (2.19%) PCI DSS
3 25 (1.95%) Accessibility
4 23 (1.80%) GDPR
5 18 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.94%) NIST
7 10 (0.78%) NCSC
7 10 (0.78%) SOC 2
8 8 (0.63%) EMIR
9 6 (0.47%) GRC
10 5 (0.39%) IFRS
10 5 (0.39%) SLA
11 3 (0.23%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.23%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.23%) SEPA
11 3 (0.23%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.16%) PSD2
System Software
1 390 (30.47%) Docker
2 15 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.31%) Firmware
4 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 396 (30.94%) Kubernetes
2 225 (17.58%) Terraform
3 80 (6.25%) Grafana
4 62 (4.84%) Ansible
5 33 (2.58%) Prometheus
6 26 (2.03%) Kibana
7 15 (1.17%) Argo
8 13 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.63%) HP Fortify
10 6 (0.47%) Puppet
11 5 (0.39%) Istio
12 4 (0.31%) Cilium
13 3 (0.23%) Nagios
13 3 (0.23%) Rancher
14 2 (0.16%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.078%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 145 (11.33%) Microsoft
2 53 (4.14%) Oracle
3 48 (3.75%) Google
4 27 (2.11%) Typelevel
5 17 (1.33%) OpenAI
5 17 (1.33%) SAP
6 15 (1.17%) Red Hat
6 15 (1.17%) Salesforce
7 14 (1.09%) BiZZdesign
7 14 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
7 14 (1.09%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.09%) Software AG
7 14 (1.09%) Splunk
8 11 (0.86%) Atlassian
8 11 (0.86%) MuleSoft
8 11 (0.86%) Palo Alto
9 10 (0.78%) Databricks
9 10 (0.78%) Guidewire
9 10 (0.78%) IBM
10 8 (0.63%) Cisco